Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pcs Pennsylvania 2-0 1.000 Brown 3-1 .750 Dartmoath 2-2 .500 HARDVARD 2-2 .500 Yale 2-2 .500 Columbia 1-2 .333 Cornell 1-2 .333 Princeton...
...when it unveiled its first Personal Computer, or PC, IBM has claimed a pacesetting 28% of the market for machines costing between $1,000 and $5,000. The PC, intended mainly for office use, is costlier and more powerful than a home computer. Last year IBM sold 185,000 PCs. This year sales are expected to reach some 800,000. Runner-up Apple, once the leader in small machines, this year will have sales of about 600,000, and now has approximately 17% of the market. Says one IBM executive: "The reason there is so much excitement about the introduction...
...engines and parts for the space shuttle, it was a late convert to the electronic office. Until five years ago, the company's secretaries did not even have word processors. Near the close of the 1970s, maverick engineers and finance people began bootlegging Apple and Radio Shack PCs (personal computers) into corporate headquarters. Soon more than 100 unofficial desktop machines had appeared. Now the office help works on more than 600 company-bought computers...
...early users discovered that the PC misplaced decimal points in certain computations, a flaw quickly corrected. But Opel felt no need to be defensive. Said he: "We added real value to that machine, and we will add more as we go along. The performance characteristics are quite unique." With PCs now selling at a brisker rate than ever, the marketplace apparently agreed that IBM had built the Cadillac of the 1982 class...